Chelsea supervisor Enzo Maresca is “100%” protected from the sack this season regardless of a drop in kind, in line with membership director Jonathan Goldstein.
Maresca, after arriving from Leicester Metropolis, loved a high quality begin to life in west London and Chelsea have been battling Liverpool and Arsenal within the Premier League title race heading into Christmas.
Nevertheless, since beating Brentford on Dec. 15 Chelsea have received simply two of their 9 league video games and have been resoundingly overwhelmed by Brighton & Hove Albion 3-0 of their final match.
However whereas Chelsea, who’ve famously not given coaches a protracted leash up to now, have dropped to sixth within the desk — and out of the Champions League locations — Goldstein has turn into the primary member of the membership’s board to publicly again Maresca.
“He is doing an important job,” Goldstein, who’s a part of the BlueCo consortium that purchased Chelsea in 2022, mentioned on Bloomberg TV. “Chelsea began the season very nicely.
“The previous six weeks have been, you realize, discovering their toes just a little bit extra. However Enzo has clearly executed an important job in bringing the crew collectively, bringing the expertise by means of.”
Requested if Maresca would keep for the remainder of the season, Goldstein replied: “100%.”
Chelsea tackle Aston Villa subsequent on Saturday in a recreation that would have enormous ramifications for his or her European soccer hopes subsequent season.
Throughout the membership’s robust begin to the season, Maresca maintained that Chelsea weren’t prepared for a title problem and have been centered on a top-four end.
